Maharashtra's Mr Natwarlal Nilesh Ghaiwal!

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00:00Dear viewers, anyone who has flown abroad knows the drill at immigration.

00:04A tiny mismatch in your name, a missing stamp, even a typo can mean hours in a glass room

00:10while officers triple check your papers.

00:13Ordinary travellers get grilled for the smallest slip.

00:16But meet this man, Nilesh Ghaival, a Pune gangster ordered by the High Court to surrender his passport.

00:22Supposed to be grounded, yet he breezed past the same counters at immigration

00:27and was on a flight to London before the police even finished pulling CCTV footage in Cothrood.

00:33While they scrambled, he was probably sipping tea at Heathrow Airport

00:37and checking the internet to see if the lookout notice had gone viral.

00:41This isn't a slick OTT thriller, it's the real story of a man

00:44who moonwalks through the cracks of a system that treats regular citizens like suspects.

00:49How does someone with a rap sheet longer than a cricket scorecard

00:53glide past immigration when a court order said, hand over your passport?

00:58Hello, I am Tejas and you are watching Honest Take on Lokmat Times.

01:02In this video, we will break down how a history-sheeter

01:05managed to fool the entire system and escape the law.

01:10We are talking about Nilesh Ghaival,

01:12the man, the machinery and the mess that made his escape possible

01:15and why it should anger every citizen.

01:19But before we move ahead, our usual request,

01:21please do subscribe to Lokmat Times if you haven't already

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01:27Let's start.

01:28Before we figure out how Ghaival pulled off this vanishing act

01:31and fooled the entire system,

01:33we need to go back and understand who this man really is.

01:37Unlike the stereotype of a school dropout turning to crime,

01:41Nilesh Ghaival isn't some back-alley thug.

01:43He is an M-Com graduate from Pune,

01:46born in Sonegau village of Damkher Taluka, Ahilyanagar district.

01:49This wasn't a kid starved for opportunity.

01:52He came to Pune for higher education,

01:54met gangster Gajanan Gaja Marne

01:56and decided the underworld was more profitable than balance sheets.

02:01Lesson number one,

02:02education doesn't automatically make you civilized.

02:05Sometimes it just gives you better Microsoft Excel skills

02:08to manage extortion money.

02:10Early 2000s, Pune saw the rise of two names

02:13that terrified local business owners,

02:15Marne and Ghaival.

02:16They started as partners in crime, quite literally.

02:19Their friendship included murders, extortion

02:22and a seven-year jail stint for killing

02:25that marked Nilesh's formal entry into organized crime.

02:28But like every classic gangster story,

02:30the bromance did not last.

02:32Money and ego took over.

02:34By the late 2000s,

02:35Ghaival split,

02:36started his own gang

02:37and Pune got a bloody sequel,

02:39the Marne-Ghaival rivalry.

02:41The two groups turned parts of

02:43Kothrud and Shastri Nagar into war zones.

02:45Gun fights,

02:46marshiti attacks

02:47and retaliatory murders became routine.

02:49Innocent people got caught in crossfire

02:51and each time,

02:52police announced stringent action

02:54while the gangs went back to work.

02:56But by this time,

02:57Nilesh Ghaival's rap sheet had everything.

03:00Murder and attempted murder,

03:02kidnapping and extortion rackets,

03:04armed robbery and intimidation,

03:06violent assaults on rivals and civilians.

03:08The Maharashtra Control of Organized Crime Act,

03:11Makoka,

03:12was slapped on him more than once.

03:14He was detained under the

03:15Maharashtra Prevention of Dangerous Activities Act.

03:18Yeravda jail became a second home for him.

03:21But acquittals followed like clockwork.

03:238 out of 12 cases were thrown out.

03:26Either he is the unluckiest man

03:28repeatedly framed

03:30or the luckiest criminal

03:31blessed with fantastic lawyers

03:33and some very friendly loopholes.

03:35September 2025 should have been the month

03:38Pune police finally nailed him.

03:40Members of his gang opened fire

03:41near the Kothrud police station

03:43over something as stupid as parking dispute.

03:46A private firm employee,

03:47Prakash Dhumala

03:48and a 19-year-old student,

03:50Vaibhav Sathe,

03:51were attacked.

03:51Both were innocent bystanders.

03:54Imagine the audacity,

03:55firing bullets a stone's throw

03:56from a police station.

03:58If that doesn't scream,

03:59we own this city,

04:00what does?

04:01Five gang members were arrested

04:03and Makoka was invoked again.

04:05Guyver himself was named as the mastermind.

04:08The high court ordered him

04:09to surrender his passport.

04:11Instead,

04:12he surrendered to nobody.

04:13Here is where the story

04:14stops being a gangster flick

04:16and turns into a comedy of errors.

04:19Except,

04:19it's not funny.

04:20In 2019,

04:21Guyver had applied

04:22for a Tatkal passport

04:24using a fake address

04:25in Ahilyanagar.

04:26Local police verified the address

04:28and reported him

04:29not available.

04:30They sent a negative report

04:32to the regional passport office.

04:34End of the story, right?

04:35Wrong.

04:36Despite the red flag,

04:37a passport was issued.

04:39Either someone was asleep at the desk

04:41or someone was paid to look away.

04:43By law,

04:44after the high court order,

04:45the passport should have been surrendered.

04:47Instead,

04:48it became his golden ticket

04:50out of India.

04:51First,

04:51reports said he landed in London.

04:54Latest updates suggest

04:55he is in Switzerland

04:56on a 90-day visa,

04:57maybe enjoying Alps

04:59while Pune police draft press releases.

05:02Wherever he is,

05:03he is out of reach for now.

05:04Living in a luxury house,

05:06bought with extortion money,

05:07his son enrolled in an elite London school.

05:10Indian authorities have issued

05:12a lookout circular,

05:13immigration alerts,

05:14and international notices.

05:16But all that came after the horse bolted.

05:19While the police claim

05:20they are tightening the news,

05:21let's talk about the photos.

05:23A smiling diver posing

05:24with Maharashtra Chief Minister

05:26Eknath Shinde inside Mantralaya.

05:28Instagram reels of him

05:29casually shooting videos

05:31inside the state secretariat.

05:33Another clip of him

05:34strolling with BJP MLC Ramshinde

05:37during a village fair.

05:38Opposition leaders shared these visuals

05:41with captions like,

05:42Gundaraj.

05:43The government offered

05:44the classic defense.

05:45He just walked in.

05:46We did not know.

05:48Sure,

05:48because hardened gangsters

05:50often accidentally end up

05:51making reels

05:52inside the state secretariat.

05:54These pictures

05:54aren't just embarrassing optics.

05:57They hint at a deeper rot.

05:58Political patronage.

06:00Criminals don't survive

06:01for decades

06:02without friends in high places.

06:04Guyver wasn't sneaking in

06:05through back doors.

06:06He was walking in

06:07through the front gate,

06:08smiling for cameras.

06:09Let's tally the failures

06:11in Nilesh Gaiver case.

06:12First,

06:13police verification.

06:14Negative report ignored,

06:15passport issued anyway.

06:17Second,

06:17court orders.

06:18High court directive

06:19to surrender passport

06:20not enforced.

06:22Third,

06:22immigration.

06:23No alert at departure

06:24despite pending serious charges.

06:26And fourth,

06:27political access.

06:28A wanted criminal

06:29comfortably meets top leaders.

06:32Any one of these

06:33should have stopped him.

06:34Together,

06:34they show a system

06:35that's either incompetent

06:37or compromised.

06:38or both.

06:39This isn't only

06:40about one gangster.

06:41Maharashtra has a long history

06:42of criminals

06:43who double as political assets.

06:46From Arun Gavi

06:46to Marane clan,

06:48gangsters become power brokers,

06:50parties use them for muscle

06:51and cases melt away

06:53in the warmth

06:54of political patronage.

06:56When voters reward strongmen,

06:58leaders happily keep them close.

07:00The line between politics

07:01and organized crime

07:03isn't blurred.

07:04It's practically invisible.

07:05And while the state

07:06blames procedural lapses,

07:08remember that ordinary citizens

07:10can't get a passport renewed

07:12without a clean police report.

07:14How does a man

07:15with murder charges

07:17and high court order

07:18not just get a passport

07:19but leaves the country

07:21before anyone notices?

07:22Here is my honest take.

07:24A gangster with an MCOM degree

07:25and a murder sheet

07:26is clicking selfies in Europe

07:28while the same government

07:30that couldn't stop him

07:31keeps giving sermons

07:32on law and order.

07:34Will he be brought back?

07:35Maybe.

07:35But even if he is,

07:37it's like putting a bandaid

07:38on a bullet wound.

07:39The loopholes remain,

07:40the contacts remain

07:41and the next Nilej Ghyver

07:43is already packing his bags.

07:45Right now,

07:46Pune is sending the world

07:47a painfully clear postcard.

07:49If you've got the right contacts

07:50and enough cash,

07:51the law isn't a wall.

07:52It's a revolving door

07:54with VIP access.

07:55And that's the real crime.

07:56If this makes you angry,

07:58good.

07:58Stay that way.

07:59Because every time

08:00a gangster strolls past immigration

08:02while Netaz boasts for photo ops,

08:05justice in India

08:05stops being blind.

08:07It just starts

08:08looking the other way.

08:09So share this.

08:10Talk about it.

08:10Demand answers.

08:12The system only changes

08:13when the people watching

08:14refuse to blink.

08:15That's all for today's honest take.

08:17Until next time,

08:18stay sharp,

08:18stay curious

08:19and never stop

08:20asking tough questions.

08:31Take care.

08:32Bye.

08:34Bye.

08:35Bye.

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